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Cornell is the second large college within a month to expand its present status of student government. Only recently Princeton, by giving the power of dismissal to its senior council, has made considerable progress in the evolution of its honor system which has been in operation since 1893. Cornell and Princeton are by no means alone in their actions, for, according to Professor Baldwin of the University of Iowa, there are 123 institutions in the United States which have formal honor systems...
...John's University of Shanghai also is desirous of obtaining the services of several American college men for three year terms to teach in Physics, Political Science, and Commerce departments. China's ancient civilization in this transition age is being modernized, and no stronger influence to the progress of development is at work than that of institutions like St. John...
...interest to note the position lacrosse holds in other colleges. In some of the colleges of the South and in one of the colleges of the North it is a major sport. At Cornell intramural games are played; a championship university team is awarded black letters. At Syracuse the progress is so rapid that there is a possibility that in the future lacrosse will be played instead of baseball at commencement. At Annapolis the football men are required to play lacrosse...
...started recently, when fifty candidates reported to Coach Richard A. Glendon. This is Glendon's nineteenth consecutive season at the Naval Academy. Candidates for the Plebe crew, who have been working most of the winter under the direction of R. S. Glendon, Coach Glendon's son, are making good progress...
...future peril. Two deaths have been reported in New York City, the first fatalities resulting from the typhus since 1892; health officials at that city have detected scores of vermin-bearing immigrants admitted through the port of Boston. Although the co-operation of the Italian Health Service shows important progress, it by no means precludes danger from other sections of the continent. The immigration authorities can do not better than to follow Italy's lead in handling the situation, for an outbreak of such a disease would cast grave reflections not only on them because of their failure carefully...